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Seed

noun
(pl. seed or seeds)
1.
A small hard fruit.
2.
A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa.
3.
One of the outstanding players in a tournament.  Synonym: seeded player.
4.
Anything that provides inspiration for later work.  Synonyms: germ, source.
5.
The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract.  Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid.
verb
(past & past part. seeded; pres. part. seeding)
1.
Go to seed; shed seeds.
2.
Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money.
3.
Bear seeds.
4.
Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth.  Synonym: sow.
5.
Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds.
6.
Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain.
7.
Inoculate with microorganisms.
8.
Remove the seeds from.



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"Seed" Quotes from Famous Books



... the highways for want of bread, and divers left their habitations, travelling with their wives and children to other parts to get relief, but could find none. That the committees and Justices of the Peace of Cumberland signed a certificate, that there were 30,000 families that had neither seed nor bread-corn, nor money to buy either, and they desired a collection for them, which was made, but much too little to relieve so ...
— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton

... as illusion or enjoin a cloistral seclusion upon the mind, but rather proposed each and every appearance as a touchstone on which the quality of personality should be unceasingly tried. By the constant application of a high standard to life, it seemed to implant an incorrupt seed of manliness, and to create in its disciples that saner mood which holds in equal aversion a Heliogabalus and a Simeon Stylites. So persuaded, I could join with the fervour of a neophyte in the Stoic's profession: "Good and evil are in choice alone, and there is no cause ...
— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... I am the seed within the pod; The worm within its closed cocoon: The wings within the circling clod, The germ, that gropes through soil and sod To beauty, radiant in the noon: I am all these, behold! and more— I am the love ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein

... over night in cold water, and wash it well in fresh water; cut in dice half an inch square, six ounces of yellow turnip, six ounces of carrot, four ounces of onion, two ounces of celery, (or use in its place quarter of a saltspoonful of celery seed;) put all these into two and a half quarts of boiling water, season with a teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a saltspoonful of pepper, and as much cayenne as you can take up on the point of a very small pen-knife blade; boil slowly for two hours; ...
— The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery • Juliet Corson

... answered. "He was just as GOOD to me. Every day in the summer time he used to ride over to the Seed ranch back of the Mission and bring me a great armful of flowers, the prettiest things, and I used to pretend to pay him for them with dollars made of cheese that I cut out of the cheese with a biscuit cutter. It was such fun. We were the best ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris


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